India’s military has launched “Operation Sindoor“, striking nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, after which Islamabad said it had retaliated by striking Indian military targets, in the worst fighting in more than two decades between the nuclear-armed neighbours,
Al Jazeera reports.
Pakistan said on Wednesday that at least 26 people were killed and 46 others injured in the Indian attacks and firing along the border. India said at least eight were killed by Pakistani shelling.
The Indian strike and counterattack by Pakistan come amid soaring tensions, after a deadly attack last month on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir that New Delhi blamed on Islamabad, which denied any involvement.
In a statement early on Wednesday, India’s government said its military had attacked “terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir from where terrorist attacks against India have been planned and directed”.
“Our actions have been focused, measured and non-escalatory in nature. No Pakistani military facilities have been targeted. India has demonstrated considerable restraint in selection of targets and method of execution,” it said.
The missiles struck locations in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and the country’s eastern Punjab province.
